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Show The Crrat Irish Famine. As winter advanced the distress grow deeper and fiercer. It was a hard winter, cold rains and .t4Jl iws alternating. To I famine and fever was added cold. Hundreds Hun-dreds of cabins in Comity Cork had nothing on their earth floors save a few rotten bundles of straw not a blanket, "not a stick of furniture." Neither could the people afford in many cases even tho cheap peat tires. Tho men tramped barefoot through the snow to the relief works. Their rags hardly covered cov-ered their bones. It was the commonest thing in the world for men to be "struck with the cold" and die in a day or two. All over tho country men and women could bo seeti "redigging the potato grounds, in hopes of rinding some few remaining." They were bending over the fields which the sheep had deserted, trying to find turnip roots. Families were known to have lived for weeks "on the flesh of horses that had died." A Skibbereen man with a family of five had nothing for them all to eat from Saturday to Thursday except eleven and one-half pounds of potatoes and a head of cabbage. Ho walked several miles to the works and the superintendent gave him a piece of bread; ho tried to swallow swal-low it and dropped dad. Octave Tha-iiet Tha-iiet in Century. |